Word: tiernan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feminist groups [in Boston] that have addressed themselves to the needs of poor women," Kip Tiernan, a social worker at Boston's St. Phillips Church, says. Tiernan says PUMA members often display an unusual sensitivity to the concerns of female alcoholics, prison inmates and battered women, in social projects which go beyond PUMA members' own immediate interests...
...campaign financing law. Three of its six $38,000-a-year seats have been filled with losers. The President appointed one: former Missouri Congressman Tom Curtis, 63, who lost his Senate race against Tom Eagleton. Two others were named by House party leaders: Rhode Island Democrat Robert Tiernan, 46, and Wisconsin Republican Vernon Thomson...
RHODE ISLAND. The candidate who accomplished the most with the least amount of help undoubtedly was an ingenuous and indefatigable maverick named Edward P. Beard, 34, who upset Democratic Congressman Robert Tiernan. The party's man and a nine-year congressional veteran, Tiernan was so confident that he did not even bother to campaign until the last two weeks...
Beard's victory over Tiernan-23,787 votes to 22,025-left him with just $40 in his pocket. His annual salary as a painter is now $9,000 (he gets $300 extra as a state legislator), but he can look forward to receiving a raise to $42,500 next year. In a zealously Democratic district, Beard is favored to win in November over Vincent Rotondo, the little-known Republican candidate...
...hold down inflation." The tightening should also be applied to the board's own operation. After labor members freely discussed the aerospace vote with newsmen waiting in the lobby last week, P.R. Man Herbert Wurth was nonetheless forbidden by the board's new executive director, Robert Tiernan, to write a press release about it until the rejection had been framed in legalese. Furious at such mindless rules, Wurth quit...